January 15, 2012 : Our first seconds, minutes, days, and weeks often give a strong sense of who we are and set the pace for how the following months, years, and decades will unfold. We see this in the beginning of Jesus' ministry in Mark chapter 1. His choices in the beginning were incredibly intentional and significant, setting the focus and tempo of the next three years of ministry he would do throughout the countryside of Galilee as a traveling teacher, healer, and prophet. He begins by choosing not to speak, but rather to listen for God's voice in baptism and time in the wilderness. In this beginning, Jesus showed what can happen when we begin by letting God get near to usâ letting God break through and come down to dwell in us, letting God speak first before we offer words of our own.
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